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. TAG. No. 340,527. Patented Apr. 20, 1886.

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JOHN C. ST. JOHN, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO STEPHEN WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

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EPECIPICATION forming part. of Letters Patent 10.340527, dated April 20, 1886. Application filed September 12, 1885. Serial No. .76.895. (No model.)

ing tickets with metallic points on their backsv by binding the wire over the edge of the tag in a manner hereinafter explained'whereby a very superior, strong, and cheap pin-ticket is produced. I

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fignrel is aview of the back of the tag. showing the pin passed through it. Figs. 2 and 3 are views showing the pin bent over the edges of the tag. Fig.

4. is a perspective view of the pin.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designatesa tag, which may be made any size and of any suitable materialsuch, for example, as cardboard-and consists of the upper or face surface, a, of thetag, upon which the number and other marks may be printed, and the lower or back surface, b, of the tag, which'is nearest to the article on which it is used. I

The letter 13 indicates the pin, which is secured to the edge of the tag by bendingin the manner hereinafter explained.

In carrying out my invention I first pass the wire B, bent in the shape of a staple, into the back 12 of the tag A, as shown in Fig. 1. Then I bend the wire B on the face-surface a of the 0 tag A over the edge of the tag A. as shown in Fig. 3, until it lies along the back or lower surface, b, of the tag A, when I bend the points substantially at right angles to the back or lower surface of the tag A, as is clearly shown in 5 Fig. 3, the several bendings producing a pin approximating that shown in Fig. 4. Putting the pin into the tag from the back, as above described, and bendingit over the edge ofthe tag, very materially helps to sustain the pin in position. leaves a larger surface for the number and other designatingmarks on the face of the tag, and permits the points of the tag to be more easily bent laterally or other- Wise, and easily-manipulated tag. By bending the wire twice it clamps the edge of the tag, thereby preventing displacement one from the other.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, adesignating pin-ticket consisting of the face-card A and the stapleshaped pin B, having its ends passed through the ticket from the rear side to the face, thence bent laterally outward to the edge, and thence bent downward and'inward from the edge to the loop portion or points of entrance, and thence downward substantially at right angles to the plane of the card, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. ST. JOHN.

Witnesses:

Feanors G. BOWEN, JAS. S. EWBANK.

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